School Community Council

School Community Council Elections for 2018-2019:
If you have a student at Maple Mountain High School for the next 2-year term, and you are interested in serving on the School Community Council, please email both deann.nielsen@nebo.edu (principal) and joy.maughan@nebo.edu (secretary) by August 20, 2018.

Your name will be added to the MMHS SCC Ballot. Elections will be conducted as directed in Nebo School District Board policy KC and will follow the Utah Code Ann., section 53A-1a-108.

Elections for the 2018-2019 School Community Council will be held at Maple Mountain High School. Patrons may vote in the front office August 23, 24, 27 and 28 between 7:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. If there is not a contested race, the school will not need to hold elections. High schools will have at least 6 parent/guardian members that are expected to serve a 2-year term.

Purpose and Function of the School Community Council:
A School Community Council is created for the purpose of: (a) involving parents or guardians of students in decision making at the school level; (b) improving the education of students; (c) prudently expending School LAND Trust Program money for the improvement of students' education through collaboration among parents and guardians, school employees, and the Board of Education; and (d) increasing public awareness of: (i) school trust lands and related land policies; (ii) management of the State School Fund established in Utah Constitution, Article X, Section V; and (iii) educational excellence. In this regard, the responsibilities of the School Community Council are advisory in nature. The authority of the Council does not supersede the authority of the principal, the superintendent, or the Board of Education.

SCC Rules of Order and Procedure:
Each Council must adopt rules of order and procedure to govern its meetings. Each meeting must be conducted in accordance with the rules, and the rules must be made available at each meeting and on the school’s website. The rules must govern the following:

Parliamentary order and procedure
Ethical behavior
Civil discourse

School LAND Trust Funds:
Members of the School Community Council (parents, teachers, and the principal, in collaboration with an approving entity) shall use School LAND Trust Program funds in data-driven and evidence-based ways to improve educational outcomes, including:

strategies that are measureable and show academic outcomes with multi-tiered systems of support; and
counselors and educators working with students and families on academic and behavioral issues when a direct impact on academic achievement can be measured.

School LAND Trust Program expenditures are required to have a direct impact on the instruction of students in the particular school’s areas of most critical academic need. A school may not use School LAND Trust Program funds for the following:

To cover the fixed costs of doing business;
For construction, maintenance, facilities, overhead, security, or athletics; or
To pay for non-academic in-school, co-curricular, or extracurricular activities.

A school district or local school board may not require a council or school to spend the school’s School LAND Trust Program funds on a specific use or set of uses.

A council may budget and spend no more than $7,000 for in-school civic and character education, including student leadership skills training and digital citizenship training as described in Section 53G-7-1202.

A school may designate School LAND Trust Program funds for an in-school civic or character education program or activity only if the plan clearly describes how the program or activity has a direct impact of the instruction of students in school’s areas of most critical academic need.
A school may use a portion of the school’s School LAND Trust Program funds to provide digital citizenship training as described in Section 53G-7-1204.

Notwithstanding other provisions in this rule, a school may use funds as needed to implement a student’s Individualized Education Plan. Student incentives implemented as part of an academic goal in the School LAND Trust Program may not exceed $2 per awarded student in an academic school year.

School LAND Trust Expenditures:
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017

2017-2018

Category	Description	Estimated Cost
	Total:	$141,000
Salaries and Employee Benefits (100 and 200)	Funding will be used to hire additional teachers and/or purchase additional teaching time for extended day contracts in math, English, science, social studies, technology, foreign language, fine arts and health. Funds will also be used to hire trackers and provide student labs. Teachers will have 3 paid days during the summer to work with their professional learning communities to develop SLOs, assessments and other collaborations needs.	$109,000
Professional and Technical Services (300)	Substitutes for professional learning communities to develop SLOs, assessments and other collaborations needs. Registration fees for conferences.	$14,000
Transportation/Admission/Per Diem/Site Licenses (510, 530 and 580)	Provide training opportunities for teachers, Provide opportunities for students to compete in competitions and fairs.	$8,000
Software (670)	Purchase software for classrooms as needed.	$3,000
Equipment (Computer Hardware, Instruments, Furniture) (730)	Purchase Chrome books and carts.	$7,000